Email: egalan@kumc.edu
Phone: (913) 831-1111
Edwin Galan, MA, MSN, ARNP, FNP-C, serves as Clinical Assistant Professor
at the University of Kansas School of Nursing. He also serves as the Associate
Administrator and Director of Clinical Services for KU Health Partners’ nurse-managed
center: Silver City Health Center. This faculty practice site operates under
the leadership of the School of Nursing and is currently the only nurse-managed
center in the state of Kansas.
Galan is a Captain (retired) in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned
Corps. Most recently, he was the federal Region VII Minority Health Coordinator,
working with the state Departments’ of Health for Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska
and Missouri,their Community Based Partners and as the senior minority health
advisor to the Regional Health Administrator (KC Region VII), U.S. Dept. of
Health and Human Services.
He is an advanced practice nurse with over 28 years experience in various areas
of health care. This includes over 21 years of federal and active duty service
both in the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps and the U.S. Public Health Service. He has
served as a Team Leader for mental health needs in New Orleans for Hurricane
Katrina relief work and for United Nations work with the U.S. Secret Service
post Sept 11, 2001 in New York City with federal medical teams.
Previously, Galan worked for the Region VII Administrator of the Center for
Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), where he served as a health care facility
inspector (surveyor) on compliance with federal mandated regulations and as
a technical advisor (project officer) for national quality improvement organizations
(QIOs) with the states of Michigan, Kansas, Wisconsin, North and South Dakota.
This also entailed being the local CMS point of contact on their initiatives
with minority and underserved population groups.
Galan served in the first Persian Gulf War and in the initial military expedition
to Somalia with Operation Restore Hope. Galan has worked many short duty assignments
in eight African nations, Europe and in the U.S. for health care and disaster
assistance needs. His emergency preparedness and disaster mitigation experience
includes many federal and military training modules such as DART (Disaster
Assistance Response Teams), various FEMA courses and assignments, regional
Emergency Augmentee Coordinator, and others.
A native of Illinois, Ed feels very comfortable in the Midwest and brings first
hand knowledge and experience with our state government agencies and partners.
Ed speaks fluent Spanish and “some” French, which he has used in
his federal assignments and for public speaking or translations for various
health related and population specific needs. Galan’s interests include
cultural awareness in primary care practice, care for underserved populations
and mentoring students or new health care professionals. His other love is
his family which includes two grown sons, Joseph, Johnathan and his wife of
over 25 years, Alicia.
Galan believes in fulfilling his present roles as part of “serving the
underserved” and does so with the same tenacious energy that he’s
brought to each of his previous duties and roles.
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